Vestiges of the Mayas / or, Facts Tending to Prove That Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in Very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa

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OR, Facts tending to prove that Communications and Intimate Relations must have existed, in very remote times, between the inhabitants of MAYAB AND THOSE OF ASIA AND AFRICA.
BY AUGUSTUS Le PLONGEON, M. D., Member of the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mass., of the California Academy of Sciences, and several other Scientific Societies. Author of various Essays and Scientific Works.
NEW YORK: JOHN POLHEMUS, PRINTER AND STATIONER, 102 NASSAU STREET.
1881.


MR. PIERRE LORILLARD.
Who deserves the thanks of the students of American Archæology more than you, for the interest manifested in the explorations of the ruined monuments of Central America, handiwork of the races that inhabited this continent in remote ages, and the material help given by you to Foreign and American explorers in that field of investigations?
Accept, then, my personal thanks, with the dedication of this small Essay. It forms part of the result of many years’ study and hardships among the ruined cities of the Incas, in Peru, and of the Mayas in Yucatan.